[svlug] The original SVLUG/SBAY vote? was Re: ISSUE: SVLUG's continued status with SBAY

[J. Paul Reed]

On 17 Feb 2006 at 16:20:38, Ian Kluft arranged the bits on my disk to say:

> All of the examples I mentioned happenned after SVLUG's membership voted
> to join sbay.org.  I was tapped clearly as a result of that.

This is an interesting point: when did this vote originally occur?

See, I was under the impression that it occurred in mid-2004, within 4-6 six
months of the beginning of the term.

Shows what I know.

I have found that discussion about SBAY incorporating has been going on for
much longer than I had originally assumed
(http://lists.svlug.org/archives/svlug/2002-January/039493.html).

Chris Verges raised the important question: how are we going to vote on
this? In asking for some history on the volunteers list, the responses I've
gotten indicate that the SBAY/SVLUG merger was voted on by a hand vote at a
meeting. 

"People were given ample notice."

Going back through the svlug and svlug-announce's email archives, I can't
find ANY mention/announcement of this vote at all. I started from June of
2001 on the svlug list and back to September of 2000 on the announce list,
and couldn't find a mention of it anywhere (searching for 'SBAY').

There were no pro/con statements/rebuttals, like those that appear at
http://corp.sbay.org/board/svlug-sbay-20060213.html.

I can't seem to find any historical discussion on the pros/cons of this
arrangement.

I'm sending this out because I'm trying to gain more historical perspective
on this relationship (and also seeing how this vote was initially
conducted; I think that's a good way to conduct it now), and I can't find
any evidence that it was ever really discussed at all.

I'm hoping someone who was there can point us all in the right direction.

Later,
Paul
--
President
Silicon Valley Linux Users' Group
preed at svlug.org